Programming

MacBird wasn't built in a day

I'm trying to build MacBird, a process that's deterred considerably by my lack of Mac programming experience. Because UserLand's last release was built with CodeWarrior Pro 4, I've been using a Discover Programming edition of CodeWarrior 4 -- the closest I could find on eBay -- but it appears to lack the Power PC Linker specified as a build target. I'm guessing I need to upgrade to get more linkers, but until I know for sure, I don't want to spend more on this project than I already have. ... (read more)

2003/05/06

Now that I'm puttering around with XML-RPC and the Apache XML-RPC Java class library, the most common problem I encounter is XML that Apache's XML-RPC client can't parse (usually because of problems with the XML). On the radio-dev mailing list, Matt Croydon of PostNeo recommended a great Windows utility that can spy on XML-RPC, HTTP, and other networking operations: TCPTrace by Simon Fell. The program runs as a proxy server, passing requests to the right server and port, receiving the response, ... (read more)

2002/11/19

Object-Oriented Programming Pioneer Kristen Nygaard Dies

Kristen Nygaard, the computer science pioneer who is credited with Ole Johan-Dahl for the invention of inheritance, has died at age 75. Nygaard's website contains an encyclopedia entry he wrote about their role in early object-oriented programming, along with a lot of other interesting material on programming, including a funny article about the object-oriented family tree. "Ole-Johan Dahl and I are said to be the 'fathers' of SIMULA I and SIMULA 67 and thus of object-oriented programming," ... (read more)

2002/08/12